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The number of Soviet military combat personnel in Angola was small, a few hundred at any one time. They acted in the capacity of military advisors and in training roles, and also in providing military communications
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Soviet military advisors of the Angolan Army’s 25th brigade in the vicinity of Cuito Cuanavale
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Soviet military adviser Major V Gavrilov with a damaged BMP-1 after fighting in the province of Moshiko
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Cuban and Soviet officers confer with each other in Angola sometime during 1985.
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Angolan, Soviet and Cuban soldiers pose for a photograph near Cuito Cuanavale in April 1988.
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This speech by the late Plan Commander Peter Nanyemba during the struggle will open your eyes on exactly how the Swapo revolution was betrayed. 34 years later, we still don’t have the land and Swapo is fighting IPC on who should be friends with European Land Owners.
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Retired Genera Martin Shali far left and retired General Chalse “Ho Chi Minh” Namoloh 2nd from left backrow with Cubans and FAPLA Forces ,1988.
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from left Peter Nanyemba (then SWAPO’s Secretary Of Defence),Colonel Nikolai Khrushkin of the red Army and military Advisor to PLAN and Uuno ‘Kanana’ Shaanika (then North West Front Commander).
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Not Cuban, but Russian mil advisors to SWAPO (Col Gennady Kireyev, small-arms instructor – standing) and Col Alexander Veres, advisor to PLAN Chief of staff, sitting)